Outline of Art History - Modern Art

Visual Arts Movements - 1880-1970

After Impressionism proved it only took a handful of artists to band together and create a lasting impact, Art got very busy proving this concept again and again. And again. (Who knew so much could happen in a mere 90 years?)

Here are listed movements, schools, groups, colonies and other descriptive plural nouns from around the globe that got their respective starts during the years between 1880-1970, or the Early Modern and Contemporary eras as we have so classified them. Each has been sorted according to the decade in which it was formed.

Tip: This is a seriously long list. Every available item is listed alphabetically within any given decade, but, still. Long! Use Ctrl+F (Windows) or Cmd+F (Mac) and type in your search term to locate the movement, group or school you seek more quickly.

1880

Cloisonnism - late 1880s

Etruscan School - 1883-84

(The) Glasgow Boys - 1880-1900

(The) Heidelberg School - mid-1880s - mid-1890s

Japonism - 1880-1895

Nabis - ca. 1888-1900

Neo-Impressionism - 1886-1906

Newlyn School - early 1880s-ca. 1900

Post-Impressionism - 1886-1905

Symbolism - 1880-early 1900s

Synthetism - late 1880s-early 1890s

Tonalism - 1880-1920

1890

Art à la Rue - 1890s-early 1900s

Bande Noire (or "the Nubians") - 1890s

Expressionism - 1890-1939

Fauvism - ca. 1898-ca. 1908

Glasgow Style - ca. 1890-ca. 1920

Nagybánya Colony - 1896-1930s

Pintura de la luz - 1890s-early 20th Century

Secession - 1890s-early 1900s

Ten American Painters (or "The Ten") - 1898-1918

1900

Abbaye de Créteil - 1906-1908

Art Nouveau - 1905-1939

(The) Ashcan School - early 1900s-early 1920s

Beautiful Indies - early 20th Century-ca. early 1930s

Bloomsbury Group - 1904-late 1930s

Blue Rose (or "Golubaya Roza") - 1904-1908

Cubism - 1908-1939

Cubo-Expressionism - 1909-1921

Die Brücke - 1905-1913

(The) Eight - 1907-early 1920s

(The) Friday Club - 1905-1922

Futurism - 1909-1939

Hagenbund - 1900-1930

Luminism - 1904-early 1910s

Scuola Labronica - ca. 1908-ca. 1950

Septem Group - 1909-ca. 1930

Young Estonia (or "Noor Eesti") - ca. 1902-1917

1910

Arbeitsrat für Kunst - 1918-1921

Bauhaus - 1919-1933

Biomorphism - 1915-1940s

Blaue Reiter (or "Blue Rider") - 1911-1914

Brabant Fauvism - ca. 1910-1923

Camden Town Group - 1911-1914

(Russian) Constructivism - 1914-early 1930s

Cubo-Futurism - 1912-1915

Cumberland Market Group - 1914-1919

Dada - Dadaism - 1916-1923

Donkey's Tail (or "Oslinyy Khvost") - 1911-1915

École de Paris (or "School of Paris") - 1915-1935

Escuelas de Pintura al Aire Libre - ca. 1913-1932

Formism - 1917-1922

Jack of Diamonds (or "Bubnovy Valet") - 1910-1917

Kecskemét Colony - 1911-ca. 1920

London Group - 1913-1930s

Neo-primitivism - 1910-1914

November Group - 1917-1924

Orphism - ca. 1912-13

Pittura Metafisica - 1911-ca. 1930

Purism - 1918-1926

Puteaux Group - 1910s

Rayism - 1912-15

Revolt Group - 1918-1920

Scottish Colorists - 1910-ca. 1930

Sōdosha (or "Grass and Earth Society") - ca. 1915-1922

Suprematism - 1915- mid-1920s

Synchronism - 1913-ca. 1916

Union of Youth (or "Soyuz Molodyozhi") - 1910-1914

Vorticism - 1914-1920

1920

a. r. group - 1929-1936

American Scene Painting - ca. 1920-early 1940s

Art Deco - 1920s-1930s

Artes / Neoartes - 1929-1935

(The) Blue Four (or "Blauen Vier") - 1924-1936

Circle of Artists (or "Krug Khudozhnikov") - 1926-1932

Constructivism - 1920s-Present

(International) Constructivism - 1922-1939

de Stijl - 1920s-1932

(The) Degenerates / Entartete Kunst - 1920s- mid-1940s

Devetsil - 1920-1931

Earth Group (or "Serbo-Croat Zemlja") - 1929-1935

Eesti Kunstnikkude Rūhm - 1923-ca. 1930

(The) Fellowship of St. Luke - 1925-1939

Group of Seven - 1920-1933

Group X - 1920

Halmstad Group (or "Halmstadgruppen") - 1929-early 1980s

Harlem Renaissance - 1920-1930s

Inkhuk - 1920-26

(The) Kapists - 1924-ca. late 1950s

Magic Realism - 1920s-1940s

Makovets - 1921-1926

Neue Sachlichkeit - 1920s-ca. 1930

Néo-Réalisme - 1920s-1930s

Precisionism - 1920s-1940s

Rhythm Group - 1922-1932

Riga Artists' Group - 1920-1940

Scuola Romana - 1927-1940

Surrealism - 1922-1939

Szentendre Colony - 1928-ca. 1940

Verism - 1920s-ca. 1930

Vkhutemas - 1920-1930

Workshop 17 - 1927-1965

1930 - WWII

Abstraction-Création - 1931-1936

Alaskan Movement - 1930s-Present

Allianz - 1937-1950s

Arantist School - 1930s-Present

Art and Freedom - 1939- mid-1940s

Concrete Art - 1930-ca. 1960

(The) Euston Road School - 1937- mid-1970s

Färg och Form - 1932-ca. 1940

Forces Nouvelles - 1935-39

Group of Five - 1930s

Hlebine School - ca. 1932-ca. early 1960s

Neo-Romanticism - 1930s-1950s

Persatuan Ahli Gambar - 1937-1942

Regionalism - 1930s

Socialist Realism - ca. 1930-1950

Unit One - 1933-35

1945 - Post-War

Abstract Expressionism - mid-1940s -Present

Art brut - mid-1940s -Present

Art informel (or Informalism, or Lyrical Abstraction) - mid-1940s -1950s

Arte Concreto Invención - 1940s

Arte Madí - 1940s

(Les) Automatistes - 1946-1951

CoBrA - 1948-1951

Fronte Nuovo delle Arti - 1946-1952

Groupe Espace - 1949-1951

Homme-Témoin - 1948- mid-1950s

Jeune Peinture Belge - 1945-48

Movimiento Madí - 1940s

New Horizons (or "Ofakim Hadashim") - 1948-1960s

(The) New York School - 1940s-1950s

Perceptismo - 1940s

Prisme d'Yeux - 1948-1950

Spazialismo (or "Spatialism") - ca. 1947- mid-1960s

Tachism - late 1940s- mid-1950s

Young Indonesian Artists - 1946

1950

Action Painting - 1950s

Antipodean Group - 1959-1960

Arte generativo - 1959-Present

Arte nucleare - 1950s

Color Field Painting - 1950s-Present

(The) Concretists - early 1950s

Gruppe 53 - 1953-1959

Gruppo degli Otto Pittori Italiani - 1952-ca. 1960

Gutai - 1954-1972

Hard-Edge Painting - late 1950s-Present

(The) Kitchen Sink School - 1950s

Matter Painting - 1950s-Present

Neo-Dada - 1950s

Painters Eleven - 1953-58

(Les) Plasticiens - 1955-59

Pop Art - mid-1950s –Present

Quadriga - 1952-54

Situationism - 1957-early 1970s

Washington Color Painters - mid-1950s -Present

Zero - 1958-1965

1960

Arte Povera - late 1960s-1970s

Black Expressionism - 1960s-1970s

Conceptual Art - 1960s–Present

(The) Contemporary Artists Group - 1966

Continuità - 1961-ca. 1970

Fluxus - early 1960s-late 1970s

Grupo Hondo - 1961-1964

Junk Art - 1960s-Present

Land Art - late 1960s-early 1970s

Mechanical Art - 1962-65

Minimalism - 1960s–Present

Monoha - 1960s

Neofiguración - second half 1960s

Nouveau Réalisme - 1960-63

Op Art - 1964-Present

Performance Art - 1960s–Present

Photorealism - mid-1960s -Present

Post-Minimalism - late 1960s-1970s

Post-painterly Abstraction - 1964-Present

Praxis - 1963-1972

Process Art - mid-1960s -1970s

Psychedelic Art - early 1960s-early 1970s

Saqqakhaneh - 1960s

Solentiname Primitivist Painting - 1968-Present

Support-Surface - 1967-1974

(The) Sydney 9 - 1961

Syn - 1965-1970

Woodland School - 1962-Present